NAME
    Class::Forward - A class dispatcher that handles namespaces like paths

VERSION
    version 0.08

SYNOPSIS
        # OO Usage and Syntax

        package MyApp;

        use Class::Forward;

        ...

        sub class {

            my ($self, $shorthand, @arguments) = @_;

            my $class = Class::Forward->new(namespace => ref $self);

            return $class->forward($shorthand, @arguments);

        }

        package main;

        my $app = MyApp->new;

        my $data = $app->class('data.new'); # returns a new MyApp::Data object

DESCRIPTION
    Class::Forward is designed to simply return class names or dispatch
    method calls using shorthand. It uses file-system path specification
    conventions to match against class namespaces.

EXPORTS
  clsf
    The exported function clsf is responsible for resolving your shorthand.
    It begets the follow functionality:

        package App::Store;

        use CGI;
        use Class::Forward;

        clsf;                             # returns App::Store
        clsf './user';                    # returns App::Store::User
        clsf './user.new', name => 'N30'; # return a new App::Store::User object
        clsf './user_profile.new';        # ... App::Store::UserProfile object
        clsf '../user';                   # returns App::User
        clsf '//';                        # returns App; (top of the calling class)
        clsf '//.new';                    # returns a new App object
        clsf '//view';                    # ... returns App::View
        clsf '//view.new';                # ... returns a new App::View object
        clsf '//view.new.render';         # ... dispatches methods in succession
        clsf 'cgi';                       # returns App::Store::Cgi
        clsf '/cgi';                      # returns Cgi (or CGI if already loaded)

        # yada yada

        1;

    The clsf function takes two arguments, the shorthand to be translated,
    and an optional list of arguments to be passed to the last method
    appended to the shorthand.

    NOTE: Class::Forward also has support for walking up a path although
    this should be done with caution, writing code that executes other code
    based on its namespace's relativity to the current class could yield
    unpredictable results, especially if the calling class is ever
    relocated.

SEE ALSO
    Along my travels I recall visiting a similar module on the CPAN called
    Namespace::Dispatch which provides somewhat of the same functionality.
    Additionally, since this module looks like something INGY would upload,
    you might want to check out his offerings also.

AUTHOR
    Al Newkirk <anewkirk@ana.io>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2012 by Al Newkirk.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.